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<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Exhibiting hot cross buns</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-submitted-by field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Submitted by <span class="username">Breadandwine</span> on January 9, 2013 - 8:18pm.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><p>Hi folks</p><p>I discovered many years ago that the cross on a hot cross bun pre-dated the Christian era. I mentioned this at our local Humanist group meeting which was discussing mountng an exhibition in the local library.</p><p>Knowing I'm a home bread maker, the organiser said, "Ah, we have our first exhibit!"</p><p>I thought of making a batch of, say, a dozen (maybe a baker's dozen?), buns, closely packed together, rather like with the Chelsea buns:</p><p><a href="http://nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/chelsea-buns-undercover.html">http://nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/chelsea-buns-undercover.html</a></p><p>...and then, when they've cooled, giving them a coat of varnish - clear, of course! Unless I'm to replace them every couple of days - the exhibition is on for a week.</p><p>And, unless I hear differently from you guys, I don't intend putting a pastry cross on top. Rather I shall cut a cross in the buns with the back of a knife - much as I did when I was a lad in my dad's baker's shop over 60 years ago.</p><p>Looking forward to your thoughts!</p><p>Regards, Paul</p><p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A//www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31731/exhibiting-hot-cross-buns&amp;title=Exhibiting%20hot%20cross%20buns" title="Bookmark this post on del.icio.us." class="service-links-delicious" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thefreshloaf.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/service_links/images/delicious.png" alt="del.icio.us" /></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A//www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31731/exhibiting-hot-cross-buns&amp;text=Exhibiting%20hot%20cross%20buns" title="Share this on Twitter" class="service-links-twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thefreshloaf.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/service_links/images/twitter.png" alt="Twitter" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A//www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31731/exhibiting-hot-cross-buns&amp;t=Exhibiting%20hot%20cross%20buns" title="Share on Facebook." class="service-links-facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thefreshloaf.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" /></a> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A//www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31731/exhibiting-hot-cross-buns&amp;title=Exhibiting%20hot%20cross%20buns" title="Thumb this up at StumbleUpon" class="service-links-stumbleupon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thefreshloaf.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/service_links/images/stumbleit.png" alt="StumbleUpon" /></a></div>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:18:18 +0000Breadandwine31731 at http://www.thefreshloaf.comhttp://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31731/exhibiting-hot-cross-buns#comments